There is a common perception that Boards belong to large companies. They have formal agendas, board papers, committees, governance frameworks and independent directors. For many SME founders, that picture can feel completely disconnected from the reality of running a growing business. The founder may still be involved in major decisions. The leadership team may be small. Everyone may know each other well. Decisions can often be made around a table, over a phone call or during

There is a point in the growth of almost every successful business when the way things have always been done starts to become harder to manage. It rarely happens because the business is poorly run. In fact, it is often the opposite. The founder knows the customers. They know the suppliers. They know which employees can be trusted, and which transactions need a closer look. They know what normal looks like because they have been involved in almost every part of the business. F

Every growing business has it. The employee who knows how the invoicing process really works. The operations manager who remembers why a particular customer is treated differently. The founder who can solve almost any problem because they have years of experience stored in their memory. This knowledge is valuable. It has often been built over years of experience, problem-solving, and customer relationships. Transferring tribal knowledge does not need to be complicated The pro

ERP projects are often positioned as technology initiatives. New platform. New dashboards. New workflows. Better reporting. The expectation is clear: implement the system and performance improves. But in practice, that is rarely what happens. Many ERP projects fail to deliver expected outcomes not because the technology was wrong, but because the organisation expected the system to solve problems that already existed. ERP implementation is not a finance project. It is not an

Learn why the founder transition is often harder than growth itself and how founders can avoid common leadership traps while building a scalable business.